WALK ON THE WILD SIDE - JANE FONDA - RARE JAPANESE MOVIE POSTER - 1962 CULT FILM

Description

RARE ORIGINAL
JAPANESE MOVIE POSTER
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE - 1962
JANE FONDA
CULT FILM
Poster is 20x29 inches
Very good condition: two light horizontal fold lines (typical of most Japanese movie posters), a small tear on one side near fold. No pin holes or stains.
Will be shipped in a sturdy tube.
Don't miss out on this very rare poster.
Walk on the Wild Side is a 1962 film directed by Edward Dmytryk, adapted from the 1956 novel, A Walk on the Wild Side, by American author Nelson Algren.
The film had a star-studded cast, including Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter, and Barbara Stanwyck, and was scripted by John Fante.
The opening and closing sequences, directed by Saul Bass.
The film's title song, "Walk on the Wild Side," was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Music, Original Song. Elmer Bernstein, composer, and Mack David, lyricist shared the nomination.
PLOT:
During the Great Depression, Dove (Laurence Harvey) and Kitty (Jane Fonda) meet on the road in Texas as each travels separately to New Orleans. They decide to travel together, hitchhiking and hopping freight trains. Dove is hoping to find his lost love Hallie (Capucine), and is not interested when Kitty comes on to him sexually.
After Kitty steals from the New Orleans-area café where she and Dove stop for a meal, he leaves her and makes things right with the owner, Teresina (Anne Baxter). She gives Dove a job at the café and a place to stay while he searches for Hallie. He finds her working at the Doll House, an upscale French Quarter bordello, where Jo (Barbara Stanwyck) is the madam.
Later it is revealed that, after Jo's husband lost his legs in an accident, she lost interest in him. A lesbian relationship is suggested between Jo and Hallie, who is supported by the owner in pursuing her interest in sculpting on the side. But Hallie still works for Jo as a prostitute like the other women. Hallie is unhappy with her life at Jo's, but does not want to give up her comforts to risk married life with Dove.
Meanwhile, Kitty starts working at the bordello after Jo bails her out of jail, where she had been confined for vagrancy. Seeing that Kitty and Dove appear to know each other, Jo questions Kitty about her past, and learns that she traveled with Dove from Texas to Louisiana. Jo threatens Dove with arrest for transporting the underage Kitty across state lines for immoral purposes and for statutory rape, unless he leaves New Orleans without Hallie. As Dove leaves the bordello, the bouncer, another employee, and Jo's husband beat him viciously. Kitty watches from upstairs.
Kitty helps Dove return to the café, where Teresina cares for him. The younger woman goes back to the bordello to get Hallie, helping her reach the café. When Hallie can't be found at the bordello, Kitty is suspected and put under pressure; frightened, she brings Jo and her three henchmen to the café. During the ensuing struggle among the men, Hallie is shot and killed by a stray bullet. The film closes by showing a front-page newspaper story reporting that Kitty's testimony sent Jo and several others from the bordello to prison.
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